WILD (3-0-2) at PANTHERS (4-2-1)
6:30 p.m. ET; FDSNWI, FDSNNO, SCRIPPS
Wild projected lineup
Kirill Kaprizov -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno -- Marat Khusnutdinov -- Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Liam Ohgren
Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin -- Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill -- Declan Chisholm
Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Daemon Hunt
Injured: Jared Spurgeon (lower body), Ryan Hartman (upper body)
Panthers projected lineup
Eetu Luostarinen -- Anton Lundell -- Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe -- Sam Bennett -- Matthew Tkachuk
A.J. Greer -- Jesper Boqvist -- Mackie Samoskevich
Evan Rodrigues -- Patrick Giles -- Uvis Balinskis
Gustav Forsling -- Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola -- Dmitry Kulikov
Adam Boqvist -- Nate Schmidt
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: None
Injured: Jonah Gadjovich (back), Aleksander Barkov (lower body), Tomas Nosek (upper body)
Status report
Tkachuk returns for the Panthers after missing the past five games. … Barkov, a center, could return later this week. … Gadjovich, a forward, will miss his third straight game. … Wild coach John Hynes said Spurgeon, a defenseman, has resumed skating in Minnesota. He has missed the past three games.